An Opera Requiem, Part III: requiem for the open web?
ForewordI first started writing about the grim outlooks of the Opera browser over 10 years ago, forecasting dark times for the open web when the browser switched to Blink the next year, and declaring...
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Überprüfungslisten
La riscopertaHo recentemente riscoperto una cosina a cui avevo lavorato qualche anno fa: due check-list“grafiche” di cose da ricordarsi di verificare prima di uscire di casa o di andare a dormire.È...
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The element
Introduction This is an expanded, blog-form version of a recent thread of mine on MastodonI love the SVG format. It's not perfect, but it has some amazing features, and with all the issues in its...
View ArticleNot by AI
This is a long-form post based on a previous Mastodon thread by yours trulySome time ago I came across a Mastodon post by @stammy@stammy.design linking to a website proposing “Not by AI badges”. The...
View ArticleA credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos/1
ForewordThis article is born out of several threads I've written on Mastodon (relevant references: here, here, here, here and here at least, but also see this and this for additional arguments) after...
View ArticleIl Fediverso (non) è (.)uno
… che al Mercatone mio padre compròOrmai tutti hanno sentito parlare di Mastodon, la piattaforma di microblogging che ha avuto un esplosivo successo come alternativa al defungente Twitter dopo la presa...
View ArticleC++ templates and object properties
One of the beatiful things of the Fediverse is the amount of interesting people and the stimulating dicussions they fuel.This article stems from a minithread by @tess@mastodon.social complaining noting...
View ArticlePreparing for the end of the open web
Against the Web Environment Integrity proposalIn April this year (2023) Google (or at least some of its employees) came out with a proposal for a Web Environment Integrity attestation mechanism, also...
View ArticleThe unbearable lightness of text
This is a long-form post based on a previous Mastodon thread by yours trulyI've recently written a review of Teslagrad, a videogame which among its most striking features has beautiful art. Despite...
View ArticleThe unbearable lightness of text, part 2
I have previously discussed how I try to keep the Wok“lightweight” by design, and how a big part of this is achieved thanks to a distinct lack of images and other so-called media files (audio/video in...
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